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tcp: remove dst refcount false sharing for prequeue mode

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Alexander Duyck reported high false sharing on dst refcount in tcp stack
when prequeue is used. prequeue is the mechanism used when a thread is
blocked in recvmsg()/read() on a TCP socket, using a blocking model
rather than select()/poll()/epoll() non blocking one.

We already try to use RCU in input path as much as possible, but we were
forced to take a refcount on the dst when skb escaped RCU protected
region. When/if the user thread runs on different cpu, dst_release()
will then touch dst refcount again.

Commit 093162553c (tcp: force a dst refcount when prequeue packet)
was an example of a race fix.

It turns out the only remaining usage of skb->dst for a packet stored
in a TCP socket prequeue is IP early demux.

We can add a logic to detect when IP early demux is probably going
to use skb->dst. Because we do an optimistic check rather than duplicate
existing logic, we need to guard inet_sk_rx_dst_set() and
inet6_sk_rx_dst_set() from using a NULL dst.

Many thanks to Alexander for providing a nice bug report, git bisection,
and reproducer.

Tested using Alexander script on a 40Gb NIC, 8 RX queues.
Hosts have 24 cores, 48 hyper threads.

echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_autocorking

for i in `seq 0 47`
do
  for j in `seq 0 2`
  do
     netperf -H $DEST -t TCP_STREAM -l 1000 \
             -c -C -T $i,$i -P 0 -- \
             -m 64 -s 64K -D &
  done
done

Before patch : ~6Mpps and ~95% cpu usage on receiver
After patch : ~9Mpps and ~35% cpu usage on receiver.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet 2014-09-08 08:06:07 -07:00 committed by David S. Miller
parent 32bc6d1a35
commit ca777eff51
2 changed files with 25 additions and 10 deletions
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12
net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c
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@ -1559,7 +1559,17 @@ bool tcp_prequeue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
skb_queue_len(&tp->ucopy.prequeue) == 0)
return false;
/* Before escaping RCU protected region, we need to take care of skb
* dst. Prequeue is only enabled for established sockets.
* For such sockets, we might need the skb dst only to set sk->sk_rx_dst
* Instead of doing full sk_rx_dst validity here, let's perform
* an optimistic check.
*/
if (likely(sk->sk_rx_dst))
skb_dst_drop(skb);
else
skb_dst_force(skb);
__skb_queue_tail(&tp->ucopy.prequeue, skb);
tp->ucopy.memory += skb->truesize;
if (tp->ucopy.memory > sk->sk_rcvbuf) {
@ -1765,10 +1775,12 @@ void inet_sk_rx_dst_set(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
if (dst) {
dst_hold(dst);
sk->sk_rx_dst = dst;
inet_sk(sk)->rx_dst_ifindex = skb->skb_iif;
}
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet_sk_rx_dst_set);
const struct inet_connection_sock_af_ops ipv4_specific = {

3
net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c
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@ -93,6 +93,8 @@ static struct tcp_md5sig_key *tcp_v6_md5_do_lookup(struct sock *sk,
static void inet6_sk_rx_dst_set(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
{
struct dst_entry *dst = skb_dst(skb);
if (dst) {
const struct rt6_info *rt = (const struct rt6_info *)dst;
dst_hold(dst);
@ -101,6 +103,7 @@ static void inet6_sk_rx_dst_set(struct sock *sk, const struct sk_buff *skb)
if (rt->rt6i_node)
inet6_sk(sk)->rx_dst_cookie = rt->rt6i_node->fn_sernum;
}
}
static void tcp_v6_hash(struct sock *sk)
{